Khadja (13) Was Found Dead in a Suitcase in Breda 50 Years Ago: 'I Suspect that He Wanted to Have Sex with Her and that She Refused'

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Exactly 50 years ago, on August 1, 1976, Breda was shaken by a gruesome discovery. A suitcase was found on Brouwerijstraat containing the body of a 13-year-old girl. Journalist Gert-Jan van den Bemd wrote a book about the murder, which intrigued him so much even as a child, that will be published on Saturday. The body was crawling with maggots. The head lay loose behind the body and the left hand was missing. Now, 50 years later, chills still ru…

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In the center of Breda lies a stinking suitcase that smells of rotting flesh. Beneath hundreds of wriggling maggots, the body of a human is visible. The suitcase murder took place fifty years ago this Saturday. Writer Gert-Jan van den Bemd reconstructs the case in a new book. "A young girl who met such a horrific end in a foreign country has touched many people."

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In the center of Breda lies a stinking suitcase that smells of rotting flesh. Beneath hundreds of wriggling maggots, the body of a human is visible. The suitcase murder took place fifty years ago this Saturday. Writer Gert-Jan van den Bemd reconstructs the case in a new book. "A young girl who met such a horrific end in a foreign country has touched many people."